MLLAV1974

A working class Brummie, a Digger and a Justice for the 21 supporter.
The Birmingham Pub Bombings - Time for the truth.

[MLLAV1974 @MLLAV1974]

@wildnoe @Justice4the21 @Matt_VickersMP The Tories won't call it out, both the 75-year Public Interest Immunity order on Birmingham Pub Bombings evidence and the Legacy Act to cover any loose ends were introduced by them. They've been wholly complicit in the whole cover-up from start to finish - in opposition and Govt

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

@Keir_Starmer Yet MORE proof how blinkered you are in who you choose to pay respects to. Good grief, if you can't be anything else at least be consistent, especially paying respects to ALL victims of atrocities across the UK!

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

@stephenpollard @PetroNicolaides It is only right that he should visit after such atrocious & despicable acts taking place. Unfortunately, our families cannot agree with all your sentiments. Our loved ones were murdered over 51 years ago @RoyalFamily has never met or paid his respects in person in our city

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

Cover-ups, incompetence... you name it & it's all there to be witnessed over decades! Our loved ones blown up over 51 years ago - 6 men sentenced for crimes that others committed - zero truth - zero justice - refused Public Inquiry. WHY? British institutions desperate to bury the truth of their own failings & in some cases collusion!
Look at Hillsborough- fans were blamed for police incompetencies & covered up by every institution. Too many examples to name @charlhennessy1 @NowHillsborough

[Richard Garland @richardtgarland]

“Nothing, absolutely NOTHING is more important than the Truth.” #Justice4The21

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

That "mud of grief" never goes away no matter how much time passes. Families like Kate, ours & many others find the strength deep within our core because nothing, absolutely NOTHING is more important than the Truth. WE are their voice & WE fight for those no longer here to do so

[Richard Garland @richardtgarland]

7 innocent young women who will never get to enjoy motherhood, murdered by cowards who today claim their actions as “justified”.

Their relatives treated with contempt by successive governments.

These victims deserve a lot more support than we are giving them.

#Justice4The21

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

Remembering the 7 young ladies who never had the opportunity to be a Mother or Grandmother, murdered by cowards & treated with utter contempt by successive govs
Anne Hayes
Maxine Hambleton
Jane Davis
Lynn Jane Bennett
Marilyn Paula Nash
Maureen Anne Roberts
Pamela Joan Palmer

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

Proof that everything we've been saying for years re: Legacy Act, it's all one big scam & lie. As @MiamiShowband succinctly highlighted "How can they promise truth while still promising to hide it" This obscene act gives Gov total control of the narrative to hide the Truth

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

It is interesting to note that @jessphillips met, quite rightly, with Epstein victims today. However, Margaret (Mother of Maxine Hambleton, one of the 21 murdered in England's longest unsolved mass murder of C20th) who is a constituent of Jess has heard NOTHING from her MP. And Jess has still not responded to our open letter either. Where is Jess's loyalty to her constituent & our families that she has claimed to fully support in our plight for a Judge led Public Inquiry?

[Martin McGartland @McGartland_]

Time to Act @jessphillips this is not a good look.
What are you playing at;

'Your silence is deafening!' Families of Birmingham pub bombings victims slam Jess Phillips and urge Labour minister to renew inquiry ca

https://t.co/Uc9TajZxlm

[Martin McGartland @McGartland_]

Wonder if @jessphillips is reading this on GB News;
'Your silence is deafening!' Families of Birmingham pub bombings victims slam Jess Phillips and urge Labour minister to renew inquiry call

https://t.co/Uc9TajZxlm

@Justice4the21 Public Inquiry Now @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour

[MAZZA @_M_A_Z_Z_A]

@Justice4the21 @Nigel_Farage @Keir_Starmer Why won’t Westminster give answers to the families of the 21? It’s a scandal!

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

Our families could ask the same of you Nigel regarding the murder of our loved ones who were slain on English soil 1974. Julie Hambleton asked you personally to help raise our plight - Nothing.
21 souls killed
Do you have any interest in their Human Rights, The Right To Life?

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

@JimAllister

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

@afneil

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

@GBNEWS

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

That 👇 is EXACTLY what our families have been fighting 51 years for - Transparency!
But, as ever You & @ShabanaMahmood @DanJarvisMBE et al have REFUSED us the very thing you're screaming for! Hypocrisy? Double standards? For me not for thee? Where is our S1 public inquiry?!

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

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@jessphillips @ShabanaMahmood @DanJarvisMBE @PreetKGillMP @liambyrnemp
His engagement with Dan Jarvis on our behalf elicited more reasons for not granting us a public inquiry than those provided by the Minister to us. The Minister assumed that we not would understand the reasons for refusal  we do and we reject the weakness of his reasons. 

These reasons still do not explain why the simple criteria of section 1 of the Inquiries Act 2005 have not been satisfied in our request – that there is public concern about the pub bombings. There has been no explanation as to why it would not be in the public interest (not defined) to establish an independent, judge-led, ECHR complaint public inquiry into the Birmingham Pub Bombing 1974 given government proposals have failed and will fail, and ‘our’ inquest was fatally flawed by ruling out a basic question – amongst many many others – of who bombed Birmingham? 

If your silence continues Jess, it will be a loud indictment, and we wish to hear your voice in your support again please. 

Justice for the 21 Families

[Justice4the21 @Justice4the21]

2/3 @jessphillips
@ShabanaMahmood @PreetKGillMP @DanJarvisMBE @liambyrnemp This makes the role of Home Secretary as a Birmingham constituency MP in the matter of pub bombings also redundant.  

What is it we are paying taxes for in terms of the continuing cost of electing democratic representatives who endorse a mandate to persuade us to vote for them and then sit mute on the back benches awaiting junior government appointments or Cabinet power or living in fear of their slim majorities (Yardley) at the next election or in the shadow of their own Party Whips?  

How can this possibly be categorised as being moral, ethical or democratic? 

Then there is Preet Gill Kaur MP, elected member for Birmingham Edgbaston, and not yet elevated from the packed government back-benches. She and Richard Parker, West Midlands Mayor appear to be keen advocates of the Troubles Bill now before Parliament and has suggested that J4the21 engage with its proposed mechanisms of investigation. 

We will not. The Birmingham Pub Bombings 1974 have never been considered part of the Troubles. The Birmingham Pub Bombings have never been considered part of the out-workings of the Good Friday Agreement 1998.  

The Birmingham Pub Bombings 1974 are not some pieces of a jigsaw puzzle to achieve reconciliation in post-Conflict Northern Ireland.  

The Troubles Bill is not compliant with the standards of investigation demanded by the European Convention on Human Rights and its proposed ‘reformed’ institutions will never have the powers to interrogate the British government in this matter.  

Only a statutory public inquiry can do this – as acquiesced to in the matter of the Omagh Bombing 1998 and the murder of Patrick Finucane 1989 and promised to and provided to  the Orgreave families in the Labour Party Manifesto (and as advocated for by Doughty Street Chambers, a professional home of the Prime Minister).  

If this open letter to you Jess Phillips is an embarrassment or annoyance, then so be it.  Imagine how disappointed we, the families of those slain, feel. 

No doubt this will find room in the Whitehall circular filing cabinet of broken promises and shattered allegiances. But it is written to call you out and to call you to account as a democratically elected Birmingham political representative.  

As you stated in 2019 about the Labour Party: “But it doesn't own me. It's nothing more than a logo if it doesn't stand for something that I actually care about – it's just a f***ing rose.” (The Independent 30 March 2019). Do you still care about the Birmingham Pub Bombings 1974, J4the21 and the demand for truth, justice and accountability through an independent, judge-led, ECHR complaint public inquiry?  

The mass murder of 21 innocent civilians in your ‘back yard’ – which was the back yard of the then Home Secretary Roy Jenkins in 1974 – cannot be picked up as ‘popular cause’ at one point and then dropped at another point because of political elevation to power.  

If two Ministers in a government department – the Home Secretary and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary – are prevented in presenting a view to their constituents on this most high  profile of crimes – when one, you Jess Phillips,  have been such a key advocate and supporter – and when that Department itself has questions to answer about its role in 1974 and afterwards – then perhaps the decision must be taken again or decisions on statutory public inquiries (Birmingham, No, Orgreave, Yes, Oldham, No) should be entrusted to Committee of democratically elected politicians within the House of Commons? 

A former Labour government Minister, Liam Byrne MP  (Hodge Hill and Solihull North), has taken up the cause that has apparently been abandoned by you Jess Phillips. His Parliamentary career has been rewarded by being granted the Chair of the powerful Select Committee (Business and Trade).